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"'How the Word is Passed' is Clint Smith's revealing, contemporary portrait of America as a slave owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks- those that are honest about the past and those that are not- that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nations collective history, and ourselves." --
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Language
Russian
Description
Two of Blavatsky's early travel works during her sojourn on the subcontinent ; as well as showing her nascent spiritual interests, these works have also been interpreted in light of claims that this redoubtable woman was feeding strategic intelligence about the British Empire to Russian military interests.
49) Ñamérica
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Español
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"The definite chronicle of an endless territory: Spanish America. There is a region in the world where twenty nations and over 400 million people share a language, a history, a culture, worries, and hopes. We know it poorly. Above all, we know its myths, its reflections, its common places. We think of it as in a different time. This region is called or could be called Ñamerica, and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is today. Martín...
50) Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution
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Pub. Date
1895-1964.
Language
English
54) Margaret Mead
Author
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of the woman who became one of the twentieth-century's most respected and foremost anthropologists through her studies of various peoples and cultures. Includes a timeline and glossary.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Revised and updated edition.
Language
English
Description
Captures the rich diversity of human life as it examines more than two hundred ethnic groups, large and small, around the world, through a visual study of beliefs, traditions, lifestyles, and environmental conditions.
Author
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
For more than 30 years, renowned anthropologist Wade Davis has traveled the globe, studying the mysteries of sacred plants and celebrating the world's traditional cultures. His passion as an ethnobotanist has brought him to the very center of indigenous life in places as remote and diverse as the Canadian Arctic, the deserts of North Africa, the rain forests of Borneo, the mountains of Tibet, and the surreal cultural landscape of Haiti. In Light at...
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